No you can't. Eh eh. That's the thing. You can't. Hell I should know a friend of mine designed such a system for a big company.. that happened to lose their password to the box. They got fucked big time, no way to recover it. Here's how it works. You have to TYPE the key to boot. Once booted the OS takes over the system and there's no way you're going to stick that trojan in here.
Considering the fact that even now, even the fastest 3D cards give poor performance in 32 bits color; and considering that it does'nt make much difference when your textures are compressed to death... I wonder if they are so wrong stating that 32 bit color is useless?
Did'nt D.J. Bernstein won a trial against the U.S., where the jist of it was that source code IS speech? (it was about encryption export restriction) I don't know much about the details, but does'nt the Kaplan decision contradict this?
Lemme guess, an armchair vegetarian revolutionary whose sole idea of politics is to wipe everything out (since everything's wrong) and start from scratch, and whose karma is going down so fast lately that he has to post anon.
I agree with you completely Mr Nonesuch. Not long ago I got spam from an animal loving freak. She said in her spam that she knew it was bad to spam, but that she had a good reason. The good reason? Well animals are suffering. No shit. So she wanted to let us know. Something has to be done about it. No mention of what.
Of course I told her to go get raped by a german shepherd. But she probably had been cut off yet.
So you see, there's good causes for spam. I mean, animals are suffering dude!
The right to "property" and the right to "life" have to be enforced to mean anything. You seem to imply that the former is more important than the latter. Billions of people on this planet might probably want to differ.
Why do so many people have trouble accepting the fact that life is not fair? Even if you really, really, really want something, you still have no right to property belonging to someone else.
Sickening, truly sickening. IP rights only exist because they are enforced. Nothing prevents us from not enforcing them when they're harmful.
Stealing intellectual property won't change any of the real problems...
These laws are quite funny. The idea behind them is that you're going to be guilty anyway, that you are going to enfringe the law, so you have to pay. And then if you actually infringe the law and get caught, you'll have to pay damages and possibly face prison?
Ok, let's pay those criminals (recording industry) their tax, but I want to be able to do whatever I want with their "content".
What has ALWAYS boggled me is all those shareware authors expecting to be paid for totally useless crap... ok I would want to pay for something really useful or something really fun, especially if it's only a few bucks... but when I was a mac user I found that shareware that allowed you to drag your windows transparently. Completely useless, extremely slow (esp. at the time), utterly crash prone, and with an obnoxious alert box at every startup to remind you of paying... 10 bucks, that's it, for a complete piece of shit. This kind of program has a hack value, but the value is to its author. That's it.
De Beers sells fucking diamonds. Who care about diamonds? It has some use in the industry, but overall it's mostly negligeable. It's just a minor detail.
The easy way is, of course, to put an entry in your HOSTS file to change the IP address of patch.everquest.com, but if Verant simply makes the client go to a specific IP address instead of a fqdn, then the only way to connect to the Server Emulator is to modify the client and NOW they've got you.
Wrong, and wrong.
There are ways around this, like patching system calls to redirect to the emulator server.
Then as far as derivative work is concerned, I can do whatever derivative work I want for private use, as long as I don't distribute it. Are they going to sue me if I use their booklets as toilet paper? Are they going to sue me if I cook their CD in my microwave? I don't think so. They just have the right to piss off and get off my back.
As far as I remember about Austria, their laws specifically differ from the rest of Europe
Duh... whatever. European countries' laws differ from each other. Howver member country of the EU share several treatis and laws. Austria is a member of the EU.
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No you can't. Eh eh. That's the thing. You can't. Hell I should know a friend of mine designed such a system for a big company .. that happened to lose their password to the box. They got fucked big time, no way to recover it. Here's how it works. You have to TYPE the key to boot. Once booted the OS takes over the system and there's no way you're going to stick that trojan in here.
If they can physicially get to your servers, you're fucked in so many ways that it doesn't matter.
Crypto filesystems.
Considering the fact that even now, even the fastest 3D cards give poor performance in 32 bits color; and considering that it does'nt make much difference when your textures are compressed to death ... I wonder if they are so wrong stating that 32 bit color is useless?
Is this a big deal? Do you want to make people's life, especially poor people, even harder?
Vacuum tubes .. light bulbs ... who cares?
I beg to differ; it will more likely be much hotter with all those lightbulbs.
Did'nt D.J. Bernstein won a trial against the U.S., where the jist of it was that source code IS speech? (it was about encryption export restriction) I don't know much about the details, but does'nt the Kaplan decision contradict this?
Shit happens in any case. Trust me.
devine qui?
Lemme guess, an armchair vegetarian revolutionary whose sole idea of politics is to wipe everything out (since everything's wrong) and start from scratch, and whose karma is going down so fast lately that he has to post anon.
And what's this thing you have about Canada?
situational actuality (...) synthetically modelled reactionary simulation.
Ouch.
(Comment on dit langue de bois en anglais?)
I will not buy a DVD player until I can use it in Linux.
Just to let you know that Bill Clinton, John Paul II and Vladimir Poutine are calling for an emergency UN hearing after learning this.
Actually they care more about the price of gas; that's where the middleclass viewpoint starts and ends.
I agree with you completely Mr Nonesuch. Not long ago I got spam from an animal loving freak. She said in her spam that she knew it was bad to spam, but that she had a good reason. The good reason? Well animals are suffering. No shit. So she wanted to let us know. Something has to be done about it. No mention of what.
Of course I told her to go get raped by a german shepherd. But she probably had been cut off yet.
So you see, there's good causes for spam. I mean, animals are suffering dude!
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The right to "property" and the right to "life" have to be enforced to mean anything. You seem to imply that the former is more important than the latter. Billions of people on this planet might probably want to differ.
Why do so many people have trouble accepting the fact that life is not fair? Even if you really, really, really want something, you still have no right to property belonging to someone else.
Sickening, truly sickening. IP rights only exist because they are enforced. Nothing prevents us from not enforcing them when they're harmful.
Stealing intellectual property won't change any of the real problems...
Stealing? Stealing what from who?
... do you really want to look like this?
Liberalism is socialism. Conservatism is slavery. And if you are representative, libertarianism is stupidity.
These laws are quite funny. The idea behind them is that you're going to be guilty anyway, that you are going to enfringe the law, so you have to pay. And then if you actually infringe the law and get caught, you'll have to pay damages and possibly face prison?
Ok, let's pay those criminals (recording industry) their tax, but I want to be able to do whatever I want with their "content".
Man, you seem to be poor.
My current computer has 160'000 times the memory of my first computer (ZX81, 1Ko).
What has ALWAYS boggled me is all those shareware authors expecting to be paid for totally useless crap ... ok I would want to pay for something really useful or something really fun, especially if it's only a few bucks ... but when I was a mac user I found that shareware that allowed you to drag your windows transparently. Completely useless, extremely slow (esp. at the time), utterly crash prone, and with an obnoxious alert box at every startup to remind you of paying ... 10 bucks, that's it, for a complete piece of shit. This kind of program has a hack value, but the value is to its author. That's it.
De Beers sells fucking diamonds. Who care about diamonds? It has some use in the industry, but overall it's mostly negligeable. It's just a minor detail.
This is simple, blatant, anti-competitiveness.
Indeed, and is specifically forbidden in Europe.
The easy way is, of course, to put an entry in your HOSTS file to change the IP address of patch.everquest.com, but if Verant simply makes the client go to a specific IP address instead of a fqdn, then the only way to connect to the Server Emulator is to modify the client and NOW they've got you.
Wrong, and wrong.
There are ways around this, like patching system calls to redirect to the emulator server.
Then as far as derivative work is concerned, I can do whatever derivative work I want for private use, as long as I don't distribute it. Are they going to sue me if I use their booklets as toilet paper? Are they going to sue me if I cook their CD in my microwave? I don't think so. They just have the right to piss off and get off my back.
As far as I remember about Austria, their laws specifically differ from the rest of Europe
Duh ... whatever. European countries' laws differ from each other. Howver member country of the EU share several treatis and laws. Austria is a member of the EU.